Like Coach Ulmer, and with Coach Ulmer, I too date to that tablet thing and this is another really silly argument. It isn't by the road mile anyway it is a radius distance that we laid out in agreement with the Missouri coaches years and years ago. Gosh, are you all missing the point of this whole thing with these petty silly bickering little arguments. I coached for 30 years and have been involved with and seen a lot of great events but this meet is so special in so many ways. It is about kids coming together and just getting it on with nothing to lose. It is raw competition and it celibrates wrestling in this area and the kids who wrestle. This other junk (not the word I was thinking) trivializes what is going on here. Do you really think that all of us over here on the Kansas side don't really appreciate what a great job Coach Mayab (sp) and other coaches have done over there or that we don't look forward to seeing some of those kids wrestle that we don't get a chance to see that often. It is the same for the guys over there on the Missouri side. We enjoy seeing them each year and talking to them, the kids know each other and most of them have wrestled each other in the summer and in kids for years. Enjoy it for what it is, not what it is not. Everything around here does not have to be a negative back biting affair. Sometimes we can just compete hard, slap each other on the back and come back again next year. The rest of this just takes away from what ought to be a lot of fun. Ya'll ought to save that stuff for the college games, this is better than that.

Randy Westfahl

Last edited by Westfahl; 03/04/08 11:21 PM.